Mezzo Cammin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCD| Half of my life is gone and I have let | A |
| The years slip from me and have not fulfilled | B |
| The aspiration of my youth to build | B |
| Some tower of song with lofty parapet | A |
| Not indolence nor pleasure nor the fret | A |
| Of restless passions that would not be stilled | B |
| But sorrow and a care that almost killed | B |
| Kept me from what I may accomplish yet | A |
| Though half way up the hill I see the Past | C |
| Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights | D |
| A city in the twilight dim and vast | C |
| With smoking roofs soft bells and gleaming lights | D |
| And hear above me on the autumnal blast | C |
| The cataract of Death far thundering from the heights | D |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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